OK, not exactly, but what happened is equally interesting; Quite a few of the surrounding clocks were knocked forwards by 15 minutes, this includes not only mechanical clocks, but also alarm clocks, computers, cell phones and PDAs. The result? Aggravatingly, most of those people turned up for work 15 minutes early which apparently is unusual for people from that area. It should be noted that nobody’s actually certain that the vulcanic eruption in fact, caused the discrepancy with the clocks. People have so far also blamed aliens, poltergeists, solar explosions and electrical disturbances caused by underwater cables. Oddly for Italy, nobody blamed Berlusconi or any of the Serie A (Italian Football league) referees or linesmen, possibly because it’s currently the offseason for the sport.
The stereotypical habits of the indigenous inhabitants, rule out any possibility for a hoax since if it were, the clocks would have likely turned out to be 15 minutes late, thus gaining a quarter of an hour free time for the locals.
This brings me to our first We Interrupt to give you a tip of the week segment in a couple of weeks; Chaps, if you want the long day at work to go by a little bit quicker, why not bring a volcano with you to work? Who knows how much time it could shave off your workday… In fact, I have an idea for a business, we could make small portable volcanoes and call them Porta-Vulca time savers.
Woooosh, I hear investors money swirling through… …to other projects like upside down tomato plants and miniature fold-able wallets.
